This is an excerpt from the Rural Bank of NSW’s Agricultural Magazine of the Air , which ran on 17 New South Wales commercial stations in 1939 and was still on air in the 1950s.

In this excerpt from an oral history interview with Jack Grimsley, he discusses his early influences as a trombone player and his transition to the big time – playing with the Bob Gibson

With 125 million sheep spread across the country, and 90 thousand tons of lamb and 3 million tons of wool exported annually, Australia truly rode to prosperity on the sheep’s back.

Three lighthouse keepers and their families are the only residents on remote and windswept Maatsuyker Island, off the south-west coast of Tasmania.

In postwar Australia, the milling of our nation’s prized hardwood timbers was a rapidly growing industry.

One of the most unusual political glass cinema slides in the collection is this vibrant work used by the Labor Party for the 1940 federal election.

Mark Foy's fashion parades from the 1940s and '50s, featuring designers Pierre Balmain and Schiaparelli, captured in gorgeous colour footage.

An excerpt of a Mark Foy's bridal fashion parade circa 1947 from Fashion Parades at Mark Foy’s (1947–56), Film Australia Collection, NFSA.

Take your front row seat for this collection which illuminates postwar Australia through glorious vintage fashion.

A look at Betty Bryant, once Australia’s most famed film ingénue, who features in the exhibition Starstruck: Australian Movie Portraits, now open on the Gold Coast.